A blog about an actress, silent film, and the Jazz Age; and occasionally the Denishawn Dance Company, writer Frank Wedekind, his character Lulu, Weimar Germany, Hollywood, the state of Kansas, books, music, art, history and other things sometimes only tangentially related to the heart of the matter, written on a regular basis by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the LBS.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Screen Goddesses airs on BBC TV

On Saturday December 22 and Sunday December 23, BBC TV will air Screen Goddesses. This one hour documentary might include footage of Louise Brooks. At least, she is mentioned in the program description. Here is what the BBC page says:

With the beginnings of
Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the
vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly sincere Lillian
Gish. From the 1920s, vivacious Clara Bow and seductive siren Louise
Brooks are most remembered, but none made the impact of Marlene
Dietrich, an icon of mystery, or Greta Garbo, with her perfect features
and gloomy introspection.

From the power of Joan Crawford and
Bette Davis to the seductiveness of Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner,
Hollywood studios produced their own brand of beautiful, sassy and
confident women. But it wasn't to last. The era drew to a close with the
supreme fame of Elizabeth Taylor and the tragic death of Marilyn
Monroe.

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